Species Mirapecten rastellum (Lamarck, 1819)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pecten rastellum Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [166, sp. 14].

  Type data:

   Holotype MHNG 1088/24, Habite les mers du Nord [error], corrected to off Punta Engano, Mactan, Cebu, Philippines.

 

Generic Combinations

• Mirapecten rastellum (Lamarck, 1819). —
  Sharabati, D. 1984. Red Sea Shells. London : KPI Limited 128 pp. [pl. 44, figs 1-1g]
• Chlamys (Mirapecten) rastellum (Lamarck, 1819). —
  Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [31, pl. 12, figs 4, 4a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Northern Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, QLD, Scott Reef, WA and Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea; Indo-west Pacific, from Red Sea to Fiji

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral rubble, marine, sand, subtidal.

 

General References

Dijkstra, H.H. 1998. Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae: Propeamussiidae) from Hansa Bay, Papua New Guinea. Molluscan Research 19(1): 11-52 [24, pl. 3, figs 7-8]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Beu, A.G. 2018. Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 70(2): 113-330 [202]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Moolenbeek, R.G. 2008. Some Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussidae and Pectinidae) from the Berau Islands (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Venus 67(1-2): 15-26 [23]

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (on CD)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [32, pl. 14, fig. 82]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [77]

Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [132, pl. 81, figs 1-6; pl. 82, figs 1-6]

Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [31, pl. 12, figs 4, 4a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
02-Apr-2020	PECTINOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815	25-Feb-2020	MODIFIED
15-Feb-2011		15-Feb-2011	MOVED
		19-Jan-2011	MODIFIED